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I Know What You Did Last Summer
The summer blockbuster season is in full swing, and we're diving into everything from Superman's ongoing cultural impact to the controversial use of AI in filmmaking. The Man of Steel continues to dominate conversations weeks after release, with fans still discovering Easter eggs and collecting merchandise that's flying off shelves faster than a speeding bullet.
We explore the shifting landscape of animation as Spider-Verse gets pushed to 2027, raising questions about how long anticipation can realistically build before audiences move on. Meanwhile, television excellence gets its due with Emmy nominations showcasing standout performances on shows like The Bear, where Ayo Edebiri makes history with her third consecutive nomination.
Perhaps most provocatively, we tackle Netflix's admission of using AI for an entire scene in a recent film – cutting production time by 90%. Where's the line between technological advancement and creative compromise? Is this the CGI revolution all over again, or something more concerning for the industry's future?
Our deep dive into Amazon Prime's "Heads of State" examines how streaming platforms have created a new middle ground for action comedies that wouldn't necessarily thrive in theaters. John Cena and Idris Elba's chemistry carries this turn-your-brain-off adventure that perfectly embodies the streaming formula. We contrast this with "I Know What You Did Last Summer," a nostalgia play that struggles to justify its existence beyond name recognition.
Looking ahead to Fantastic Four's imminent release, we can't help but get excited about the collectible popcorn buckets (particularly the impressive $80 light-up Galactus) while contemplating what Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards might mean for his already meteoric career trajectory. Whether you're a casual moviegoer or dedicated film buff, our conversation captures the pulse of this extraordinary moment in entertainment.
excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, dude, can you believe I'm still coming down from the high, from superman, dude, dude I'm still flying.
Speaker 2:I I don't know if you can see it it's still my background right now, like rightfullyfully so. I was thinking about changing it. I can't man, I'm still smiling.
Speaker 1:You haven't changed it to Reed Richards yet.
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe Vanessa Kirby can get me to do it.
Speaker 1:You know what? Superman, because they finally just ended the press tour, like two nights ago maybe, and this press tour looks so much fun, that's all my feed is like videos of David Cornswet. Like James Gunn interviews and stuff like that. Like there's so many behind the scenes coming out. There's still a lot that's going to be coming out. Like there's like hidden Easter eggs that James Gunn has, yeah. Like yeah, we are going to show images of some stuff later, like that, for example, there's a mural of old heroes and james gone. Like yeah, we will release official images of those later. So like there's still more to come.
Speaker 2:Like it's it's not going to end anytime soon that's what I'm hearing and I heard him, uh, very similar all over my feed. And then today I saw one where he was like yeah, I think we're going to do like a really good behind the scenes cut for the blu-ray and I'm like this is why I love physical media, like just the, the thought of hitting that button and watching the behind the scenes, or even yet a commentary.
Speaker 1:I would pay extra to have that commentary, like tomorrow yeah, and james gunn, just you would think he would get tired talking about all this stuff. Like this guy loves it, he loves it. Um, the I think the pockets were both referencing is the happy, sad, confused podcast, which I'm in the middle of that episode and it's so good he talks about, like his transition to become the new dc, like his decision to make a like to reboot it because he was originally going to just take it over. Um, it's a good interview and it's like the whole cast is having fun with his press tour. David corn, sweat the excuse me lois lane, um, and then, uh, nicholas holt sorry, they all, they all love these characters that's doing and they all support the movie and it's getting such great reactions it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Um, so, yeah, I'm still on the high of it, like I'm waiting for fantastic four to kick in any minute, like I'm sure monday it's all gonna be fantastic four.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah and I mean, like I'm already starting to see a little bit, like to the point where I they they released their last tv spot and I realized that I didn't want to watch it because obviously, like, at this point, I'm gonna go see it, I don't want any more from it. Um, but I think superman was the same way, like we caught the train like right at the tail end, or at least the regular people that you know. I've been on this for a while and, uh, I think that this will help boost fantastic four for sure yeah and I'm glad you mentioned this I was gonna bring that up too was fantastic.
Speaker 1:Four is less than a week away. I've seen so many more like tv spots and like trailers and images released like the past week. I was like stop, stop, stop, you're, you're doing too much. Like let me be surprised a little bit. I mean early, early, early reviews are being released. I mean I'm sure we're getting a lot more money because that's when the official premiere is. Yeah, um, been very well for the most part from what I've seen.
Speaker 1:I've seen like a couple haters, but we also seen that first early review of the hater on superman and that was totally wrong what I say oh, I feel so good being right um, but we're slap dab in the middle of summer movies, dude, and there's a lot of movie news going around. So I thought like it's been a minute since we did it or since I did it, um, hollywood updates. So we both have a list of what stuff you want to talk. We haven't talked about with each other, we're just going to get our reactions right now and thoughts about it. You want to go first with your first one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'll start off. You know I'll try to progressively get better, but very quick update Spider-Verse Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse got delayed three more weeks. Not a huge deal, but uh, it was very interesting. I know this is the first time we've got like an official confirmation, more than just like when it's going to come out, like they're actually putting it. It should happen, uh, june of 2027. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 1:so at this point, because it's so far away, I was like what's? Three more weeks, you know, uh, but did you hear the reasoning? They moved it back?
Speaker 2:Because of school like school getting out later, Like they didn't already know that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's because of the summer. For those who don't know like, they released it three weeks later because I believe in the beginning of June. There are some schools in the U? S or maybe just around the world that are still in school and they wanted to be slapped out in the middle of summer break so everyone can come see it. Not a bad marketing idea but, like you said, you didn't think about it sooner. You had two other movies come out already.
Speaker 2:In fact, the first one came out in December and I remember where I was when I saw that movie for the first time.
Speaker 2:The second one came out June 2nd. I remember it was the first day or two of June. I had my Spider-Verse shoes on. I was really pumped to see it. So it is like weird, like obviously it's been delayed almost three different times already for them to be like three more weeks. But you know what, like I said it, it means that it's happening, so I'm good to go yeah, yeah, like it's so far.
Speaker 1:I think it's 2027, right? Yeah, crazy, it's so far away, like what's three more weeks, you know yeah, I weeks.
Speaker 2:I had all my money on them releasing in December of 26. That would have been fine with me, dude. We were supposed to get this movie back in 2024. Was that right, didn't that?
Speaker 1:say that.
Speaker 2:It came out in 2023. It was supposed to come out. It was spring of 2024, was the marketing push for it. Then, obviously, the strikes happened, so it got kicked back and now you know there's 77 different things going on in Hollywood. So just for it to, to, to feel this, you know, this, stretched out, really, really hurts my soul.
Speaker 1:I mean, the further you push it back, the more anticipation you're building for it, and you got to live up to that hype which is can be hard.
Speaker 2:There's like a level to it, though. Right like um, I think honestly, like a year later would have been a little too soon. I, I I get why they did it, because of like how they cliffhangered us. So like, all right, fine, but I think you know if it gets pushed back any further then you risk people falling out of it. You know, like we are always going to go see it, but the general public like it's hard to keep that anticipation going without any like crumbs of anything yeah, yeah, I think I I could have sworn.
Speaker 2:I read an article that they did start working on it and then they just scratched a lot of it, so that's why it was almost starting for me, right, but they, I remember, like two cinema cons ago they released, um, like the first, like quick pictures of it, and then last year is like, when we found out it was going to be an IMAX, like or like you know, like, specifically like, so how the shots were being designed. So at this point, what's the dude who plays?
Speaker 1:miles. I know you're talking about. I can't think of his name.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was a love with Haley Seinfeld yeah.
Speaker 2:You know down bad for years. Now he's going gonna be like his voice is. He's gonna age out dude like I don't even know how he's still supposed to have this teen voice. It's all.
Speaker 1:It's crazy to me dude and he's, he's come on, so he wants to play the live action.
Speaker 2:Miles morales is like man, if you don't get your old ass.
Speaker 1:Age is one thing, but I mean, like a lot of actors do get in shape for it, but like this guy like does not have a body. Yeah, he's not gonna be in spider-man, but but that's the thing like miles story.
Speaker 2:He is like a again. He's that high schooler like this dude is. He's grown and he's never gonna recover from that tweet like I. Just I still that's a tough one, man what's what you're talking about for our audience? When, uh, hayley steinfield got engaged, he like put you know, you always put those sub tweets out. I forgot exactly what he says, but you know like, oh, people hurt you, but I'll be all right. Some stupid thing, it's like all right, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure, you know what it's awkward because she's just not into him. But then like and there's a bunch of clips of like awkward interviews like he does say something like oh, like, who's your celebrity crush? You know hayley steinfeld, and he says it's such a weird way and she's definitely creeped out about it. But then you go to like michael b jones press tour with her and she's like lovey-dovey with him the whole time.
Speaker 2:He's all over that man and he, what's the one that he always said he was like it's easy to uh act like you're in love when you're sitting next to Haley and he just stares at her. Bro, I get it, we've all been down there. I'm not, and if I was sitting next to Haley I can't say I'd be different. But you got, you can't go from Josh Allen to Michael B Jordan Like you're playing in a different, a different level, my friend, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right. Next up, emmy nominations have been posted. Severance, the penguin in the studio, have the most nominations for this year. I'm not surprised Severance has a lot, but I am surprised the Studio has a lot. I love the show. I didn't think it was going to be for everybody, but yeah, seth Rogen even posted about it. I think he alone has the most nominations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I was over the moon. Obviously, I know we both loved the studio, but I thought it was like this inside baseball, only for us like type deal. So to see that it's getting that like, obviously a lot of the actors really like it, you can tell that it was embraced. Well, even though it's a parody of a lot, but it's that thing, right. They took the time to make fun of stuff, but they also put a lot. But they, it's that thing, right. They took the time to make fun of stuff, but they also put a lot of care and attention, like that one shot episode.
Speaker 1:So my favorite episodes of the series, like and they did it right, so I absolutely earned and deserved yeah, um, also, the bear got a lot of nominations not surprisingly always do every time the season comes out, but I broke history with three the first african-american woman to have three nominations in a row and this is like the importance of not even the importance, but this is kind of what you got to educate yourself.
Speaker 2:I remember last year, man um, when she didn't get any noms and people were throwing a fit because they didn't understand, like the way the years was based off. It was like still rewarding season one and she didn't have that much to do. Right, like season two was the one where they really delved deep in season three even more. So you kind of gotta, you know, let the process happen. Emmys are really weird with the timing of tv shows, but it worked out and I'm very happy to see her getting the recognition is it nominated for season four or season three?
Speaker 2:so season four just came out. It it's gonna be not yet nominated for season three okay, okay.
Speaker 1:I just caught up to start season four, like I'm waiting to hit play on the first one because, uh, someone wanted to watch it with me, so I'm waiting on them to watch season four. Um, there, it's good. I'm not hating on it. I like the first two seasons better than season three. I'm not gonna lie, because at this point there's just too many characters coming in that I have to care about. Like I do not need to get a sad, sobby story for every single person I see on screen. Keep the story moving forward. I'm getting more flashbacks than anything anymore.
Speaker 2:I feel like yeah, and I to your point. I think, like I just phrase it up they're getting real artsy. You know, like that was like my big thing, uh, in season three. I think I know what episode you're talking about, uh, napkins, I actually like that one at the end, but then like he went on this weird like flashback episode for a whole and I'm like we only have 10 of these. You can't be exploring all these like small motivations when we're very limited on time here.
Speaker 1:Guys I actually think that's um I a o I o's a o's I o's is um director of debut. She did that episode, if I'm not mistaken yeah, yeah, yeah, she crushed it.
Speaker 2:I just like how, like? Um, obviously we got to know a little bit more about tina. I think you could have done that in half the time. But then, like watching mikey come into it, like seeing their relation, and then the talk at the diner, that's, I think, like it just meant a lot to me and they did a lot of season set up for season four with like, have you started watching it or no? I finished, I dude, I finished wednesday.
Speaker 1:Okay, I just I haven't started yet, but they were left off. They left cliffhangers for, like, um, obviously, ayo's character leaving um set up for, like the, their uncle, whoever it is is like losing money. So there's no funding for the restaurant anymore. There's a lot of setup, which is cool, which is the hell the end every season, basically. But um, yeah, like I said, too many characters slow it down. I'm excited to see brie larson, to see what she's doing in the show. Um, john berthal is crazy in the show. I was surprised.
Speaker 2:I was surprised to see john cena in the show that was random, the biggest pop-up that threw me off, like to the point where now, when Brie Larson goes up, the person I was watching with I turned and I was like they're just getting everybody from Fast and the Furious at this point they're just like it's almost like there's going to be a really interesting Venn diagram of people who have done Bo.
Speaker 2:Jamie Lee Curtis has been becoming a really good, rich, harvey current character. Yeah, yeah, she, she holds it down, man and she. They dive a little bit more into her and sees more season three is the episode when uh, sugar had her baby, right. Yeah, okay, that was an interesting episode too, that's what I mean it was just long man they're also trying to make like funny regular characters.
Speaker 1:don't cousin? I don don't even know the maintenance man who become like the hostess or something like that with his brother yeah. They're like forcing that on me. I did not fuck with them characters. I was like they were funny. Every once in a while I was like you're giving me too much of them. Like they're good in small doses. So, you know that, the big guy with the tattoos, you know he's um the only actual chef on the show.
Speaker 2:No, that's cool. Yeah, he's not even a chef on the show like full star chef like, which is why it's so funny to me yeah, and it's man, what a curve.
Speaker 1:Because, like they went from selling beef sandwiches to like these five-star meals, like in chicago. In chicago, like I, have you ever been to the actual restaurant? I never have been wanting to go. I don't know. I I don't know if I buy that part. I know there are fine dining restaurants in chicago, but, um, but from going from a beef shop that's like if our local beef shop changed into a fight. I don't know how good that would do.
Speaker 2:well, I saw, I saw a tweet like last year, uh, or like two years ago, I guess, when the season ended. It was like hey man, I love the bear, all fun and games, but if my local like sub shop turned into a fancy ass restaurant that I couldn't afford, I'd be pissed and I feel that with my soul. Dude, like, can you imagine? Like, like pops you know in Churroville like, or is it someone round town? If like round town?
Speaker 1:turned into this big, majestic, like hundred dollar plate restaurant. I mean I would be big man. Yeah, yeah, which I don't know. Oh, you've seen season four, so I don't know. They might touch on something like that.
Speaker 2:Um, you can go next for the hollywood update yeah, um going into um movies, willow and spitch this is and Stitch the first billion dollar movie of 2025. I know you want to go see this. I know you had a very interesting reaction. What do you think when you hear this?
Speaker 1:I'm not surprised it hit a billion at all. I am surprised it's the first one to hit a billion this year. I'm really upset. Sinners did not do that, but I'm not upset about it, you know. Good for them, I, I it's coming out with a sequel. It's going to be completely original. Don't know how I feel about that quite yet, um, but the movie was just average. But, like I said, it's a kid's movie, it's. It was fun. I remember having fun watching it. Um, I was more upset about the changes, but that's just me being ignorant, like not accepting new changes.
Speaker 2:But yeah, good for them. I think I'm with you on the not accepting the changes, but I hear it, I hear it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell have a new movie coming up through prime. It's going to be called the tough guys or called tough guys Don't know what it's about, but it's Will Ferrell and I'm signing up for it. Have you seen the?
Speaker 1:last will ferrell um prime movie, um, you're accordingly invited, or something like that. Oh no, I didn't. I know it was good it was. It was good, it was prime standard for comedy. I would say, and we'll get into that.
Speaker 1:One of the movies we're talking about is the heads of state, this episode, um, but think like ricky stanecki, think of, like, uh, you know, similar comedies. It's that kind of standard of humor, okay, um, but I'm thinking about will ferrell, like dude, like him and ryan gosling. Yeah, it's gonna sell tickets because they're big celebrities, but like I'm tired of them just putting will ferrell with another a-list or celebrity, like, like with mark walbert, with kevin hart, um, uh, john, well, john c riley was a good choice, but I'm trying to think of somebody else, but like you're just sticking him with a list of celebrities because you think they would mesh, well, like, let's throw these two in the room, see what happens. I was like, give me good chemistry. Like you know, will ferrell's not just comedy actor, he's a good drama actor as well. Um, so I mean, it's just him.
Speaker 2:He could definitely just be the one choosing these roles too, like you know, if I get it that, sounds like, yeah, he's at the age where you know he's he's working with people he likes you know, or working with people that like they probably had a really good conversation at a bar once and then like, yeah, let's do it like I, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. You know, like if they can keep putting a little and it still works. So, um, him, mark walbert, are the best combo for me, like other guys is literally in my top 10 movies so I would say the other guys.
Speaker 1:But like were you a big fan of the daddy holmes movie?
Speaker 2:uh, I like the first one way more than I like the second one yeah, uh, you got another one yeah, um, going into, so all right.
Speaker 2:So we were talking about the studios early in the studio earlier. I'm going into, so all right. So we were talking about the studios or the studio earlier and it's that big scene in the Kool-Aid episode which was my actual favorite episode and you know they're they're trying to avoid, like the casting situation. Someone stands up in the crowd and was like I heard you're using AI. You know everyone like goes and goes crazy. So it was really interesting to me that this week, uh, netflix actually admitted that they used ai on one of their lower budget movies for a full scene. I guess the scene was like a building explosion or whatever, um, but they talked like they, out loud, admitted that, uh, it was more cost effective. They did it in 10 times, uh, quicker than it would have taken their normal process, human jobs, um. So you know, as we are going into the future, like, what are your thoughts about companies using ai movies like this?
Speaker 1:dude, ai is coming everywhere right now. I was scrolling on tiktok the other day, um, geico insurance has an ad on tiktok right now. I could totally tell it was ai. It's not real people there, um, and it's something I am noticing that that was a great episode. Like it addresses, like people are so worried about, like are there the students are so worried about being culturally right, about like casting choices they didn't really they over. Like they didn't think ai, they didn't totally slipped their mind. Like they don't really see it as a big deal. Probably I can see sides from both. Both sides like, yeah, you're taking jobs away from actual laborers, but like it is cost efficient, it is. As a small content creator, I do use ai, but not like they do. Like I use af like editing reasons, but like yeah, to make a whole explosion. That's kind of insane to me. I I'm so curious, just curious to see how it works. Yeah, I I'm so drawn. I don't know, I know, I know that's why that's what I was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's. It's that thing, man. Like I'm also split because, at the same time, like obviously, when it comes to art and cinema, and like you know, where do we draw the lines, like I don't want them. You know, commissioning scripts based off ai written, you know stuff that's plagiarizing other things in front of it, or just like you know, like no human emotion towards it, but cgi, right, if you would, 30 years ago it took away jobs right from practical effects, like we still talk about that now. So I don't know, I think that's something that is really going to be a big hot topic. It was definitely one of the hot topics when it came to the writer's strike and the actor's strike. We saw it in both contracts and, like the studios, we saw the battle. So I'm very interested to see how it plays out.
Speaker 1:I personally think I'm okay with um ai cgi stuff, like crazy explosion versus ai writing. I think I'm okay with the other stuff, but what's the difference to you, though? You can definitely tell it's not. There's no human emotion with ai writing. There was a movie that came out hard eyes. I believe this year that I swear it was written by ai dude.
Speaker 2:I hate that movie with my whole heart yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I mean, you see examples of like remember that whole fake Willy Wonka thing that happened last year? Yeah, that guy wrote a whole script for those characters solely off of AI. It didn't make sense or anything like that.
Speaker 2:But it's going to get better. That's the thing. So when they refine these tools that's what I'm saying when do we draw the line?
Speaker 1:I'm saying when do we draw the line? I want to end it with this argue you can't get Superman with AI writing what James Gunn just did. We're on the same page there.
Speaker 2:We're on the same page there. But if they use it like you know, it would be something to say like what if James Gunn typed into AI like you know, give me a concept of you know this movie. An ai like you know, give me a. Give me a concept of you know this movie. And then now he's saving himself time because he, he's rewriting it instead of writing from scratch. You know like it's. It's just going to be. It's a. It's a hard thing to keep track of.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a very slippery slope one of my favorite trends going around now actually is ai. Um, people are taking a picture of themselves, they're taking a picture of their dog, and then they're taking a picture of that end credit scene with uh, crypto and superman on the moon and they're asking ai, can you make a photo like this for me? And it'll does, like that's a big trend, like people are getting pretty cool photos of their dogs on the moon, like that all right that's baller.
Speaker 2:Uh, next time I'm gonna do it with my cat check out my instagram next topic.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you've seen this. I loved it. Shane gillis hosted the sbs the other night, absolutely dude absolutely.
Speaker 1:Shane gillis is definitely hands on my favorite comedian now. I listen to his podcast every single week. I love everything. I was tires. Have you seen tires? No, no, oh, my god, it's. It's hilarious, it's so funny, like the whole show was great. He's great and everything he does.
Speaker 1:Um, it was random topic like my me and my co-worker were talking about like celebrities that died and I asked them like if a celebrity were to die today, like which celebrity would have the most impact on you right now that you would be devastated and shocked about? I think mine would be shane gillis. Like I, he's like oh, wow, okay, I wouldn't say at his peak right now. He's still rising up like I feel, like I'm I can't wait to see what the next thing he does, uh, but if she can get us right now, like I feel like man, it'd always be like mac miller or selena, like where would they been now? You know? But uh, the espys. He's getting a lot of confusing reviews like backlash or like praise, and it's just because it's it's his comedy. Like people are saying like he shouldn't treat it like a stand-up comedy. People are there to receive rewards, but like that's why you hired him. That's why you hired him.
Speaker 2:I think at the end of the day, the only people to blame is ESPN. You gotta know your audience. We saw their literal audience. There were some people laughing at the jokes, but it was a tough crowd. Like some of that shit was actually hilarious. It was like tough crowd, like some of that shit was actually hilarious. It was like really funny. Not everything landed for me like, but I just, you know, he was on that norm mcdonald float, like he was just kind of going in, but that's the thing about like this type of comedy. He was hitting everybody equally.
Speaker 1:You know, like anybody and everybody can get the smoke, and you know if I felt good to just laugh, um, but you got to know where you're at man I mean maybe just because I'm not a sports guy either, like I don't, I don't know almost anybody in there, okay, I was like they're just hating on them, but I was like I don't know I could be different. Like you work your whole life to be the best of the best and then this guy's coming poking fun at you.
Speaker 2:You know but that's, that's what I mean. Like it more so is I'm not even like, because I'm not trying to defend these people, I actually don't care about them at all. I'd probably do the same thing. But like, I think about the, the oscars, right, like I I'm so pumped for you know, oscar season with you is gonna be a blast. But uh, you know, when they announce a host, like I do, like when the monologue pokes fun at like a certain topic going on, but I don't need to see that person go in at everybody I love, like in a way that I'm like all right, like didn't have to do that here, like I look forward to this. So I I understand the mindset that they were in, like damn, all right I mean, it definitely felt like a roast, almost too exactly, and like in a row setting dope and his own comedy show, dope at the actual place.
Speaker 2:That's what it gets a little murky, but at the end of the day I laughed my ass off. I watched those clips like three or four times and the wmba joke had me acting.
Speaker 1:So I I love it yeah, I can't wait to listen to this podcast, to hear him talk about everything. I got one more and it's about podcasting. Nick Cannon launches a new podcast called Nick Cannon at Night, which, oh man, he missed the opportunity to do Nick at Night. I'm sure he thought about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure they banned him from it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's about he's giving relationship advice and you can really DM him asking any questions about relationship, sex or dating in general and he'll give us feedback on it. I'm tired of Nick Cannon. I'm tired of Nick Cannon. I've been tired of Nick Cannon.
Speaker 2:He's got how many kids Like 16? Probably yeah, 16. I know it's in the teens now. I don't know who let this man and publicly messy divorce from Mariah F and Carrie. Who let this man get publicly messy? Divorce from Mariah F he carry. Who let this man get a microphone? I'm so tired of him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I'm sure it's not going to be serious advice. I mean it's definitely going to be comedy. Like Jake Johnson does the same thing. You can call his podcast and they'll ask any question. They'll give you advice on it. They're not experts.
Speaker 2:They're obviously giving giving a joke answer, which is what I'm expecting.
Speaker 1:The canon thing to be about. I mean it is gonna be fun and I don't know if I'll listen to it, but uh, I don't even know what I was. He did great. He did great at hosting mass singer. I was like that's the blast there, even like america's best dance crew even I'm not dance crew like america's got talent. He was great at hosting that, yeah. But I mean, like once you go from stuff like that to doing while and now, which I don't think it's that funny anymore oh, it's not it.
Speaker 2:No, it's not at its peak, but when it was good man, it was hard to find something better but it wasn't good because of him. It was good because everyone else, you know that's a little column, a little column b, because his ability to make let them make fun of him or like lean into the cheese, like that also take like Nick, at the end of the day, is a personality, so I fully understand. Like the, the venture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, yeah. Would you like to see him back in movies? No, no.
Speaker 2:Drumline was pretty cool. Dude Drumline is Drumline's up there. I just, I haven't. It's been so long that I don't he's. It's that thing, right. I don't think I'd be able to separate whatever characters he's playing out of Nick Cannon. I'd just be like look at Nick on the screen, what is he?
Speaker 1:doing. I feel like he had such a huge opportunity to have the same career as Michael B Jordan yeah, he, he just you know, really dove into the music part.
Speaker 2:But he at a very young age and on Nickelodeon, like he's had us for a while, like he's shown his range, his chops, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1:I guess I'd be excited for him and I'd root for him, but that would be very hard for me yeah, yeah, uh, you know there's a lot of hollywood updates that we just I don't know this is a couple of we want to go over. But they said superman is still a big hot topic right now. But I mean, the tone is going to change tremendously. We're going from dc to marvel and, um, fantastic four the first time fantastic four is coming to the big screen in 10 years I think it's been 10 years. Yeah, yeah, miles teller, yeah and um, I'm pumped for it. It's getting great reviews, it looks great. I, oh, first of all superman, real quick.
Speaker 1:The popcorn buckets um, we talked about them on the last episode, but, amc, I told you I think I told you last episode I wanted the superman cups so bad and they were sold out. But I recently went to go see I know what you did last summer at the one in hobert. They still had them and I really wanted it so fucking bad. I didn't buy it. What? Only because I saw, uh, which theater? Not regal cinemark? No, not cinemark.
Speaker 1:Um amc regal cinemark I can't uh, damn, I'm tipping my time, I can't think of it right now, but anyways, they have a popcorn bucket that I absolutely love. It's the same texture as a cup but it's a full popcorn bucket and it looks amazing. It's not sold anywhere anymore because I'm sure it's sold out, but it's on ebay and I'm thinking about pulling the trigger, but that's like 60 bucks. I was like, oh jesus. But that was like, if I'm willing to spend 60 bucks, I might as well buy the 80 buck popcorn bucket galactus okay, yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2:Dude, dude, dude. I know you posted on instagram. It will be remiss if I don't talk about it. My favorite popcorn bucket all time. The new freakier friday oh my god.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I haven't talked about it with anybody yet. It looks interesting like when I heard of it, it's funny. It's a funny on a tag dude movie concept product.
Speaker 2:That is how you make a popcorn bucket. I I have no notes. It took me, it confused me, I'm not gonna lie. When you posted it I was like all right, it just has branding that.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, yeah, so I love that for those who don't know, it's a popcorn bucket and drink combo thing and the thing is like they're switching places, like the cup is actually the popcorn bucket and inside the popcorn bucket it's like a little thing for your drink. You can drink out of the popcorn bucket. It was pretty funny. It was pretty funny. Um, I, I can guarantee you I'm gonna do my hardest to grab a kirby popcorn bucket next week. Okay, that's my goal. Like the, I think it's amc, right, yeah, amc kirby, it's a popcorn bucket. You can hold your snacks in there, it can hold your drink. It all in one device and it's like big as my torso probably. It's a pretty big size one.
Speaker 2:You may make me get a popcorn bucket rob I may I, like I said, I just know if I get one you're gonna start something. I.
Speaker 1:I can't continue you don't have any right now?
Speaker 2:no, because that's I. I told you I'm a collector, I'm a hoarder man. If I get one, I'm gonna be like that for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1:Do it I have a good handful that I don't really do anything with. I'm looking around like they have some like random stuff in there, but like I don't use them any. I've never used any of my popcorn buckets for popcorn, like not even at home. But that superman one I totally bought. I definitely would use that for popcorn. Yeah, that looks sick. Um, all right for those things.
Speaker 1:For sticking around, for the long intro, we're gonna be doing two, two movies. This episode it's been a minute since we've done two episodes, or two movies, um, one in theaters and then one streaming at home that everyone can watch right now. The one we're gonna start off with first is a prime home video, heads of state, starring john cena and eejit alba. I going to dive deep into this one because I just finished watching this morning, and then we're going to finish the episode with my quick review on I know what you did last summer the sequel. Um, yeah, so we're going to talk about I want to talk about heads of state real quick for those who don't know. It's on prime right now. It's when the uk prime minister and the us president become targets of a foreign adversity. They are forced to rely on one another's thwart and globe thwart to thwart. A global conspiracy, john's I'm. I love john cena, don't get me wrong. He's playing the same character every these, all these movies. Now he's getting very.
Speaker 2:He's, he's out, he's just above turning into the rock because he still has delivered some really good performances. Peacemaker saved him, like he actually showed range, depth, all the fun things there. I think this is like when you call it a hired gun, like when you have an actor you know, like if you're looking for a john cena, throw him in here, quick and easy process.
Speaker 1:Keep it pushing I think the thing that people are drawn to and like why studios like well, amazon keeps hiring him as like it's, it's the joke on like he's delivering fast, fast dialogue and also like smart dialogue, but it's coming from this man who's just all muscles. Basically it's silly in that fact alone. So I think that's why people like are attracted to this, because like he's, it's kind of odd to see in that kind of place. Yeah, I also I'm going to start the conspiracy theory that this president, he's playing a president in this one. He's the same character from ricky's to nicky.
Speaker 2:I'm starting that conspiracy theory at the end of the year, at the end of ricky at the end of ricky, he and he stays with his friends, who becomes corporate and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:He legally changed his name and everything like that. Yeah, playing a role like that's not really his life, he's, he's. And then I'm gonna predict somewhere between that movie and this movie he went back to acting, he made it exactly and then he became a president and like, probably legally- changed.
Speaker 2:Someone reached out to him. They saw the news story. They're like you know what, let's you. You did really good method acting. Let's, let's get you on the big screen. And he worked his way up yeah, he, I'm sorry that conspiracy, we're there yeah, uh, aegis alba.
Speaker 1:It was an interesting pairing. How did you feel when you heard the announcement of them two coming together? I'm so confused I'm gonna lie.
Speaker 2:Well, they were in suicide squad. They were in suicide squad together and it made me laugh that they're both in fast and furious, but in different ways hobs and shaw. And then he's obviously dom's brother. So I was like, yeah, I guess they've crossed paths multiple times. Um, but I mean, yeah, I, I wasn't. It's like that Will Ferrell thing, like pair two, you know two popular people up and see if they have any chemistry and this this.
Speaker 1:Prime is very good about making movies that you should stream at home versus going to the theaters to see. I was like I did not see this need to see this in the movie theater. It was funny, it was good, but I probably would have been. I spent money tickets on tickets to go see it, you.
Speaker 2:You summed up my dude. If I would have paid a dollar, I would have been pissed. I would have been so upset that I drove sitting at home. I think I told you I had a few drinks.
Speaker 1:Uh, totally different experience and this movie is a good background movie. I should say like it's. It's. There's a lot of politics involved in it, but like I feel like these, almost like baby you like to spell it out Like uh, when they were explaining what NATO was to the little girl, I was like NATO's a group of friends who get together to stand up to the bullies. I was like, yeah, some people need possible with that, giving it a little bit more complicated storyline.
Speaker 1:Oh, for sure, and what say? This was like the um well one, the humor, and also like um the cool. The action scenes were very cool, I'll give it that, but I feel like you're using it as a crutch a lot versus for a good story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they um listen, they worked with what they had. I think you also summed up like prom is really good about allocating the budget where it makes sense. They knew they weren't going to get some fancy writer that could go in depth, but they knew they could make one hell of an explosion and they leaned into that part of it.
Speaker 1:And the premise alone is ridiculous. It's an actor becoming president, which is not unseen. We even seen like people like advocating for the rock to become like the president, stuff like that, absolutely arnold schwarzenegger was governor of an entire state.
Speaker 1:Yes, becoming president, and then he's also like he's just having a meeting with prime minister and stuff goes down and like they, they had to find a way back home, basically without getting killed, um, but once they're home they're still fighting the bad guys. I was like you don't have to do this anymore. You know you have like a whole security team.
Speaker 2:I I don't tell you this, this is a bad movie. But I there's a moment that I was watching this movie where I realized that, similar to a fast and furious, I had to turn off my brain If I, if I, if I kept using logic, I was going to get in a bad mood, like I felt that happening. So then, like I just sat back because, dude, every scene, there's so many issues, even the Air Force one I was like it's wrong about fighter jets at all times. This would never happen.
Speaker 1:That's what. That's what I was my first thought. That was my first.
Speaker 1:I was like all right hey, hey, not that type of movie that I just kind of just let it ride dude um, probably my favorite joke in the whole movie is when they the plane gets crashed down, the plane gets attacked and they jump out of plane and john cena gets stuck in the um tree and the agents album's character throws a shoe at him, like, hey, you know what happened the last time someone threw a shoe at our president. That made me laugh out loud so hard for no reason.
Speaker 2:It was. I forgot the pun because it was getting real wobbly at the end of that movie. But he says a pun at the end of the movie, like which was the running bit that had me? I out loud said it earns a good rating for me. Like that it crossed the threshold.
Speaker 1:I, I, I like this movie um, I turned this movie on thinking I started the wrong movie, did you think? I thought it was like an ad at first, because it opens like a new story or something like that. Yeah, by uh priyanka. So, bro, jonas, nick j Jonas' wife in real life. Yeah, I've seen her in rock comedy before. I thought she was an okay actress, but I really liked her in this movie. She was gorgeous. She had great fight scenes. She played that confident role very good, so good for her. She definitely stood out to me in this role. It's kind of odd seeing her as Idris Elba's love interest, though I thought that was kind of a weird pairing.
Speaker 2:It was's one of the things. I called it right when I right when I saw it, I was like that's gonna happen um, especially because john cena was married in. You know, one plus one equals two. Um, yeah, she, she was in this really great show called quantico back in the day. I like don't know what happened to it. It was. That show was baller, um, so I'm very familiar like three, two or three seasons deep with her work um, but outside of that like yeah, I've seen her in a few things.
Speaker 2:I've always thought she was cool. I I was pleasantly surprised to see her in this one I well, she was also in baywatch.
Speaker 1:Um, she came out in a movie like two, uh two years ago now. It's called love again. That was a pretty big rom-com for that year. I think it was very good on Netflix, if I'm not mistaken. But I think Nick Jonas doesn't make a cameo in that one too, but it was cool, oh, with the white elephant or like the.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah okay she was like getting over a dead boyfriend who's gonna be husband and she starts receiving texts from his old number and then somebody else who uses that information to make her fall in love with him.
Speaker 2:I think that's kind of crazy yeah, yeah, but that's the type of movie that, uh, netflix does work for so yeah, yeah, um, I mentioned before ricky's to nikki and also will ferrell's movie.
Speaker 1:you're cordially invited. There's also like kristen dunst movie, kristen kristen's movies. This definitely fits great in those categories. Like it's nothing, like I said, groundbreaking, it's nothing original. It is kind of original but it's kind of lame original. But the chemistry between each novel and John Cena was pretty good. I would say like they had a good back and forth and they are pros for a reason. They, they, they were quick with it. They were quick going back and forth and I'm curious to see how much they improvised, because I know they're both improvisers. Aegis Alba is also an interesting character. I've always taken him as a very serious actor growing up. Now, like seeing a bunch of interviews, his podcast appearance, this guy's just a big goofball.
Speaker 2:Like he seems fun yeah he's a big goofy dude, he's big cool like have you seen them in the hot ones?
Speaker 2:he's pretty funny yeah, oh yeah, that's like the third, like highest clip. He's like I'm gonna, like, I'm gonna fight you like, can you fight, like I would. You know, my guard's up on that moment. And he also, like it was very curious, he was doing an interview and he said that he's never watched the wire, which is baffling to me because he's phenomenal in there. But you know, to each their own. Um, yeah, dude, I they play to their strengths. John cena is that very goofy, like actually I think he's a little bit more reserved in this one like he's definitely like got some over the top, but he's like very, he's the grounded one, he's like the passionate one. And then, you know, interest elbows like the kind of grumpest, like stop kidding around, like like, and I think that worked both uh well for both their characters um, but I'm kind of worried that he just oboes also the same thing.
Speaker 1:He's getting the cast in the same roles all over again, like the more serious one and the more quick-witted, like leadership kind of role. Um, dude, I don't know, he plays a great villain. I'll give him that too, but I mean that that movie lion last year. He was good in that too.
Speaker 2:Beast, beast, yeah yeah, that movie was crazy. And like the whole behind the scenes with his daughter, dude, I can't take this man seriously since hobson shaw. I'll say it because watching him two things one like actually badass introduction when they're like who are you? Quick one-liner, bad guy I was, oh my god. And then the scene where he's like genocide, schminicide, little paycheck paid for his new guest house and like he's he's not thinking that deep about this one you know what movie I like to think about when I think about each is?
Speaker 1:alba is obsession with beyonce. Oh, you remember that one that was a good one.
Speaker 2:I kind of want to go back and rewatch.
Speaker 1:That cracks me up, man yeah, yeah, um, I mean I don't have too much to answer. This whole movie like it's decent pacing. I would give it that like, uh, there's one action scene like maybe every 12 minutes. I would say, yeah, yeah, uh, the the fighting scenes were funny alone too. Like there's a scene like where guy loses a tooth. You get the pov from inside his mouth through the missing tooth. That was pretty funny and clever. Like it lines up perfectly with her head fitting in there. Yeah, um, there's a lot of funny fight scenes.
Speaker 2:There's like a random surprise cameos in here too, or one big one, I guess you can say who are you thinking of? Jack quake oh yeah, duh how can I forget about him?
Speaker 1:I like didn't market him at all. I thought about that. I was like I don't remember seeing him in the trailers. If they did show him, no, yeah, I didn't see him.
Speaker 2:But I was like, that's my boy, Novocaine. I was so excited.
Speaker 1:Because of Novocaine and his goofy acting choices in the past. I legit did not see that badass coming from him. I thought let's go get this motherfucker.
Speaker 2:And I thought he was going gonna get killed instantly as a joke. But no, I was watching it. Like I said, uh, that's what my friend said, the same exact.
Speaker 1:I thought he was gonna die off the, off the rip no, he was clever with it, he was badass, and the only thing that killed him was like like a second of hesitation or something like that. Yeah, um, yeah, he was. He was good, good for I was happy to see him. I'm happy to see him anything anymore like he's becoming one of my.
Speaker 1:This is the third, third film with him this year so, dude, you want to talk about three movies at one time. Pedro pascal's in the theater three times next week. He's gonna be for um, what's that movie we just reviewed? Um eddington, no, eddington too, but um, oh, the, the rom-com with chris evans.
Speaker 2:Um, oh, uh, uh, it not, it's complicated, it's uh. Oh, my god, I'm blanking dude, me too.
Speaker 1:Anyways, he's gonna be with that movie, eddington and the fantastic four all what a big summer for this guy. And eddington did not get the press that it should have. Like I'm hearing great reviews about it's gonna be a big, well it's. I think it's gonna be a great story, but no one goes to see it kind of movie we talked about we might still do again.
Speaker 2:It's a little bit um um artsy, like kind of gives you like a little bit more wannabe. Prestigious has a lot of big names attached, like way too many big names attached. But no, it'll be good. And it was called the materialist. I don't know why that that eluded me good.
Speaker 1:Good, because I totally blinked on it too. Um, we talked about like not doing it on the podcast, but we might go on on live, instagram live or tiktok live. When I talk about it real quick. Um, that's gonna be on my list. But pedro pascal huge summer for him huge summer, huge career.
Speaker 2:Do you think that we're going to get pedro, uh, fatigue? What do you mean? Like, are we going to get tired of seeing this? Because, like we I don't know where you got introduced with him. Game of thrones is the first time I saw him and loved him right away. But like again, from last of us to mandalorian, even though you don't see his helmet, he's still there. And then you see him in three movies in three months and like, he's working on all these different projects. Like, is this sustainable?
Speaker 1:I don't think we're gonna get tired of him. I think he's gonna get tired of us. I think he's gonna start slowing down, like being way more specific about his roles he's saying yes to everything, man, as of right now. As of right now, good for him, but like two or three years from now, I bet you will see him once every other year alright, I think I need.
Speaker 2:I think um, I don't want to get into spoilers about other things, like other movies or stuff, but I think the thing that is keeping him successful for better or worse, he's not in them for a long time, like TV shows, like he'll do Mandalorian, but he's only the voice. So you're not really associating him with that character. Like I don't associate him with Joel. Like it takes me a minute to like oh yeah, he was in that. But I think when he's going to play someone as impactful impactful as reed richards, like he's embodying that he's gonna get like that's what he's gonna be from now on.
Speaker 1:So if I see him take six, six more roles in the next year and a half, I'm gonna be a little bit peeved so I think it's a very thin line if he I feel like that's one of his strengths like versus, like tom cruise or robert downey jr, like they have many different roles. I'm always gonna source robie downey jr with iron man. Uh, johnny dove with captain jack sparrow. There's not one specific thing I think of um pager pascal, like I think he. That's my point.
Speaker 2:He hasn't had that like big, like he's done a lot of cool things, yeah, like, that's what I mean. Like what is he on, if that's all? If I ask you, like, what do you know him from? It's, it's a lot of small. He was in it for a few, maybe a season, like I over martel. He finally got people to stop calling him that. So now taking on this big ass, but you don't like that. No, no, I think it's cool, okay, but I think that he's now going to. He's going to be our reed richards from now on. He just is like he's good because he's going to this. He's going to be in doomsday, he's going to be in secret wars, like so to see him. The main audience sees him like this. Everyone calls him this. It's going to be hard to then watch him. If he decides to pick up another interesting character like I will just know him from this.
Speaker 1:Now is my, is my fear I think that's the same as I think happened with Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool.
Speaker 2:Like before before.
Speaker 1:Deadpool, he was well he was also he was also mostly real answer, but he had, yeah, like I know him from like um, just friends, you know, like small movies, like that. But like then, what devil? He's only devil. Now he owns a soccer team. For God's sake, he's still Deadpool.
Speaker 2:That's Deadpool. That's what I mean. Like I think this is about to happen to him and they're, and they're framing it that way. So I just think it's going to be very interesting to see what happens next.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wouldn't believe you, but it's already happening. Like, like the materialist only asked him about fantastic for this Eddington movie no one's heard about, because fantastic is for us coming out next week like he had movies at least two weeks in a row. That's crazy. Yeah, this hasn't happened since?
Speaker 2:um, funny enough, uh, john uh, not burnthal um.
Speaker 1:Why am I blanking on his name?
Speaker 2:today's, not my day uh, the guy who plays thanos uh, I know, john moe, god damn it, josh brolin josh brolin um, when infinity war came out, that that was in theaters. Sicario 2 was in the theaters and deadpool uh 2 was in the theaters and he was like a main character in all three.
Speaker 1:So that was the last time I can remember something this like, like that happened man we veered off way hard off of um has a state can't let us get yapping bro dude, you know, like you know, I'll end this on this like it's a good movie to have in, the perfect movie to watch at home, like that's like a wednesday night or something like that. Um, I, I normally like to say like it's a good watch with your friends. I don't think, I don't think this is one of them. This is maybe just one for yourself if you want something in the background a little bit.
Speaker 2:Uh, like I said, I had some drinks with me and I was, I had a good time, I was laughing, we were pointing it out, stuff. So if you take it that way to have fun, be responsible. But uh, yeah, do not rush to go see this, but it was dope and I'll say this. I'll say this sometimes it's a movie that reminds me like to stop being so pretentious, because when I post it, I like to always post like the uh title card of whatever movie I'm watching. Uh, I had like four or five people snap me like oh, I love this movie. So, really, first I was watching it, I was like really, and then that's what I mean, I turned off my brain. I was like this is fun, man like this is a fun.
Speaker 1:It is fun, I'll give it that it had a great soundtrack too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oddly, oddly great?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think they a lot of. Actually, in that same interview James Gunn we were talking about like, uh, they asked the question about the soundtrack and in this one, and he was hesitant about that, he said not because he's known for that in the guardians. Well, mostly all of his movies, like the scooby-doo movies and stuff like that suicide squad, um, a lot of people think they use he uses a truck, uh, a crutch, but he doesn't in such a way because he writes those songs into the movie, says like he does, in such a way that it's the strength versus the crotch which is perfect sense Go ahead no you got it, got it.
Speaker 1:In this movie. There's definitely a crotch to make up for some scenes. Yeah, it was a fun movie. I would probably give this like six out of ten.
Speaker 2:All right, we're right there. I gave it a three. That pun, which it's crazy that I already forgot.
Speaker 1:I just I got up and I was screaming 3.5.
Speaker 2:I really I you can get me with a good pun man. I think it was like three for me on a letter that's so fair and reasonably.
Speaker 1:It's probably like a two, eight, but I'll let it slide, you know, and then we're gonna go transition to a movie that came out this past week, against. It was a big week for movies is also, but it was a big week for movies is also. But it was an interesting one because it's also that not sweet, like the bitter spot between superman and fantastic four, so like what can fit in between these two, because you got you got to get the attention of people to get away from superman in this movie. That's probably why eddington isn't doing so well, but eddington, smurfs and I know what you did last summer huge, different, uh, categories. What are you going to, eddington? And we're gonna go see talk, we talked about that. Are you planning on seeing smurfs?
Speaker 1:um, probably not in theaters like I'll for sure catch it you know there was a there's other movie reviewer that I talked to on um, on um instagram a lot, and they were watching smurfs. They didn't realize james gordon was attached to it. They said they walked out after five minutes after hearing his voice. I was like I'm not a big fan of um james gordon either because, like it was his personal life.
Speaker 2:But first of all, I I want to go.
Speaker 1:That is deep. I was like he had the popcorn and everything and he grabbed a beer. I'm not planning on seeing Smurfs at all because that movie looks horrible and I'm hearing horrible reviews about it. You also got to take a fact it's a kid's movie. But even if it's a kid's movie, at the point where you make a movie so bad that you don't really care, like you're just trying to make visual effects like for the kids, like be distracted by yeah, so. And then I heard rihanna's like she made music for it. She had like one good song in it, maybe, yeah, but I agree, yeah, but she's also making music for a kid's movie. So yeah, um, and then we're, I'm, we're gonna, I'm gonna give my mini review. I know what you did last summer. I know you're not a big horror movie fan. It's not even a horror movie. I would say it's a slasher movie.
Speaker 2:There is a difference. I will absolutely grant you. There is a big difference. Have you seen the originals?
Speaker 1:No, not at all, but you know the concept right. Yeah, there's a group of friends that have a murder of friends that have a murder. They accidentally murder somebody or something like that manslaughter. I would say they don't want to get in trouble. So they keep make a pact the next summer someone comes after them who's attached to that murder. I went to go see it opening day me and only one other person in the theater, but it was a Thursday at a four o'clock showing, so I'm assuming the Trevor ones are the bigger one had more people in there. I'm hoping at least um. This movie is mostly, I would say, 90, made for the nostalgia okay.
Speaker 2:Well, that's how the trailer kind of set it up to me because it's exactly the same.
Speaker 1:It's exactly the same as the original ones, like just a new murder and it's ridiculous, like you know. Have you seen the screen movies, at least, yeah, the screen five. Screen five was better than this one and that movie wasn't that great really. Yeah, that's bold, okay, yeah, um, I don't want to give spoilers on too much of like the ending of who the actual killer is, but it's like some of the screen five, like it's exactly who you think it is, for me at least, I don't know.
Speaker 1:It might be a twist for some people yeah um, it had a decent soundtrack as a fun soundtrack at least too. But I mean they for these kind of movies, they juice up the music and like the music when they show the like the haunting score when the killer was around, it did its job, it made the sense more and it made the scene more intense. Um, I had like a bunch of random like topics to and I was kind of bummed you didn't see it because like a random scenes that I wanted to pick at your brain. Um, this movie opens up like a woman, like a little, not a little girl, a woman probably our age, getting ready to go to her best friends. Okay, she's getting ready to go to her best friend's wedding. Is it wedding or engagement party? One of those two and she goes, she goes, visits them and, um, that night they get drunk. They go let's go watch the fireworks, because it's also fourth of july and they're just the part that pisses me off about this scene. First scene uh, they go, let's go watch the fireworks, like we used in our old spot. They drive to and they stop in the middle of road, like on a curvy road, to look at fireworks on the dock.
Speaker 1:I was like you couldn't find any other spot besides in the middle of the road and like one of the guys, guys who plays like a jackass. Um, he's like, oh, like, I'm in the middle of the road, hope no one hits me, basically, and then someone swerves and falls off the thing and then it was kind of an intense weird scene because it's half off the cliff and so they're trying to get the guy out of it but he's unconscious in the car driver's seat and then once the guy looks up who's next to the driver door, he's like it's jammed, the door won't open. The guy punches through the glass window, grabs onto the guy's shirt and the guy kind of panics and he's, he takes it off because it's a button up shirt. He takes it off like a quick jacket. I was like but they never talk about that again Like what the fuck was that? It was weird, it had nothing to do with, like what happened in the whole movie.
Speaker 2:And it never comes out.
Speaker 1:No, no. All this, like most of the killings, are the same in this movie. They have this giant hook. Stupid reasoning is more a reference for the originals. I wrote the biggest note I have in there. I'm tired we're going to do a draft of things. We're tired of seeing movies do it opened up. I hate when movies go. Someone's coming back into town, which is the main character coming back into town to stand at her parents' old house house. I hate when movies do this, like because I don't know how real it is. Um, they come back to their old high school bedroom. It's exactly the same, like no one's touched it. They haven't. They haven't not boxed up their own stuff. They haven't taken their old stuff like apparently they leave all their old clothes there. I hate when they do that. Do you have you heard anyone doing that?
Speaker 2:I'd see that all the time I was actually just watching a movie. Or maybe there's a scene in the bear where like just goes back to the. But I actually like for sure, now that you've said it, like it's gonna bother me. But I was like man, I wish I could have like a forever home where I can just go back. But you tell me you didn't put like a box in there. Even superman, that's what it was. Superman like his, his childhood home is the exact same.
Speaker 1:So we got the posters in there and everything yeah, I guess you're right about that, but it pisses me off. My just like my mom would not let me leave my shit here.
Speaker 2:You know no, and I think maybe it dude, maybe it's a culture thing, right, I guess there is a theme of the of the houses that do that, but but that's really funny.
Speaker 1:And it's definitely a cultural thing. Because this movie I was thinking like 90% of the time I was like this only happens to white people. Like this is like it kills me. It kills me with some of the decisions. Like there's a point where this woman I can talk about this because it's in the trailer like where the woman's new boyfriend or husband gets killed while she's in the bathtub. He gets killed while she's in the bathtub. He gets killed and um, she comes down, discovers his body is freaking the fuck out. First of all, that guy did not deserve to be killed. He had nothing to do with a movie. He wasn't even there when they got killed, like it was. It was like a whole year later she met this guy and like, and then, um, she takes, obviously, they go to the police station, she goes home by herself. I was like after that I was like you, someone just came in your house and attacked somebody.
Speaker 2:That's one of my big movie tropes. I I hate that. I hate that with them. I hate that man. You're not going back home.
Speaker 1:I don't care what the situation, you're not going back home also the only people that show up for her at the hospital or police station, wherever they're at, to like right after it happened, was the same five friends from the year before, like some of them aren't even talking anymore. They all showed up there. I was like your family isn't gonna come check on you. His family is gonna come. Like what? The?
Speaker 2:hell is that?
Speaker 1:yeah, um community pastor somebody yeah, there was a whole misdirected was one character that they set up to like, oh, this is the killer, but it wasn't, and he ends up dead for what reason, I have no idea. It made no sense to me. It was kind of weird. Um, the whole scene, the character choices, that movie was weird. The whole casting was weird. Like there's a character where, like where the guy is obviously antagonistic at the movie going forward, like he plays a jerk in this movie who thinks he's a badass.
Speaker 1:I was like who's asking for these kind of movies? Like who's eating this shit up? Who I'm so curious, like I don't know. And then the ending with nostalgia, like yeah, the two characters come back from the original. Um, they were mostly there, as I, well, one of them and jennifer love hewitt. I feel like she came back as ironic because it's almost like she was talking about the movie directly. Like who like this? This? No one's asking for this. Basically, she says that in the movie, plain, plain. I was like the nostalgia shit just doesn't work anymore, almost like talking to the audience directly.
Speaker 1:I was like why do you include this? Who is this for? Like, what are you talking about? And I also want to talk about the name. I know what you did last summer. Long ass title because I wrote it down for my notes. Like damn, like typing this out was long shit. But I do agree it's a good title. Just hearing the name I know what you did last summer already gets me engaged like, oh shit, what did they do last summer? You know it's, it was genius, I would say. But to name it, I know what you did last summer with already a movie called I know what you did last summer.
Speaker 1:It was kind of weird, I'm surprised the same franchise in the same franchise and they have I know what you did, uh, the summer before or something like that, and also something like they had a couple movies similar, but I didn't like how they just did the same exact title and also make the same exact movie, basically that's lazy, like you're talking about.
Speaker 2:We talked about the ai shit.
Speaker 1:That is lazy as hell yeah, um, I think I gave like a two and a half on letterbox, okay, but out of 10 I would probably get a good five out of 10 okay, my only question um matt madeline klein.
Speaker 2:How was she in this movie? Let me see real quick I gotta pull it up who she was madeline klein, oh, I hated her no, I hated her as a character or like a character the character she plays like a ditzy kind of person, like uh, I, I love madeline klein and like she, obviously, um, I think she's from like outer banks um, but I never seen that onion and you know, she crushed it, she did her job I haven't seen outer banks, um, but she's listening to stranger things, at least for one season.
Speaker 1:Um, we talked about like I need to watch more shows, and I started making a list of shows I need to watch because I'm almost done with the bear. I'm almost caught up with the bear, um, I think the only two I have on there so far are, um, the white lotus. I've never seen any of that okay and what's the one we talked about last time um severance? No, I've seen Severance hold on.
Speaker 2:I pulled up real quick and Ted Lasso yeah, that's why it's on the list and you're actually missing that, because then you got to go from Ted Lasso to Shrinking and you got an adventure ahead of you.
Speaker 1:I started Shrinking. I think I did see the first season and that one's a pretty cool relaxing show wait till season two okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Tenney ford is hilarious. I like the action. That will be too in that show. The other therapist yeah, I love her so much. She's a great. She's also a voice actress. I like to hear her voice too. Um, she's good. Um, other than that, fantastic four is coming for us, dude, galactus is coming. Galactus is coming around the corner. If you come on the next episode and you don't tell me you bought a popcorn bucket, I'm gonna be kind of mad all right, I'll think, listen, it may have to happen, just for the plot, just fuck around.
Speaker 1:And get the 80 galactus one, just fuck around and get the $80. Galactus one. That would have been so hard. It's so cool, it is very cool, I do.
Speaker 2:I have like a shelf of helmets. So I'm like in my head I was like I could probably justify that it's close enough.
Speaker 1:It's huge and it lights up. I wish it like made noise at least. Maybe I don't know, but yeah, I'm going for that kirby one for sure. I think that one's only like 30 bucks or something, something like that. Um, by the grace of god, if anyone listening to this wants to donate a galactus bucket to us, that'll be tight. That'll be tight. Um, yeah, we're gonna. We have some we just talked about before this episode um, doing some interesting games coming up, so I can't wait to do that. I've been posting a lot more clips on tiktok, so go ahead and follow that, um, and follow our instagram page both of our instagrams and, of course, our letterbox. And yeah, we're going to be talking about fantastic four. Stay tuned next week we'll be saving you, you.
